{"id":50252,"date":"2019-12-20T17:31:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T22:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=50252"},"modified":"2024-11-15T17:33:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T22:33:25","slug":"ballet-afrique-presents-duke-ellingtons-the-nutcracker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2019\/12\/20\/ballet-afrique-presents-duke-ellingtons-the-nutcracker\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballet Afrique Presents Duke Ellington&#8217;s The Nutcracker"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/balletafriqueaustin.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ballet Afrique Contemporary Dance Company<\/a> will present Duke Ellington&#8217;s The Nutcracker to a sold-out crowd at the McCallum Arts Center Friday.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>First time the dance company is using a live band<\/li>\n<li>Ballet Afrique founded in 2008<\/li>\n<li>All shows are sold out<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The show is a collaboration with the Austin Community College Jazz Ensemble. It marks the first time the company relies on live music for a production of the holiday classic. Founding Executive Director China Smith said dancing to live music will take the performers to another level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2013 Ballet Afrique Contemporary Dance Company will present Duke Ellington&#8217;s The Nutcracker to a sold-out crowd at the McCallum Arts Center Friday. The show is a collaboration with the Austin Community College Jazz &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2019\/12\/20\/ballet-afrique-presents-duke-ellingtons-the-nutcracker\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3930,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12,13,15],"tags":[3834,3832,45,1709,3833,86,1397],"class_list":["post-50252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acc-in-the-news","category-business-and-community","category-current-students","category-facstaff-news","tag-ballet","tag-ballet-afrique","tag-dance","tag-jazz-ensemble","tag-nutcracker","tag-performance","tag-spectrum-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3930"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}